Introduction to Cancer Biology
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
Table of contents: title: Contenido; title: 1. How cancer arises; title: 1.1. Defining cancer; title: 1.2. Cancer is clonal in origin; title: 1.3. Insights into cancer; title: 1.4. Causes of cancer (aetiology of cancer); title: 1.5. Identification and histopathology of cancers; title: 1.6. The 6 hallmarks of cancer; title: 2. Immortality: Continuous cell division; title: 3. Sustained growth signals (oncogenes); title: 4. Bypass anti-growth signals (Tumour Suppressor Genes); title: 5. Avoidance of cell death (apoptosis); title: 5.1. When does apoptosis occur?; title: 5.2. What triggers apoptosis?; title: 5.3. How does apoptosis occur?; title: 6. Ensuring blood vessel growth (angiogenesis); title: 7. Spread to other sites (metastasis); title: 7.1. What are the stages of metastasis?; title: 7.2. Key molecules involved in metastasis; title: 8. Summary and some thoughts for the future